WEBVTT WORKERS AT 6:00 THIS ROU RUSHHOOD IN TO HELP. FIREFIGHTERS RESPONDING TO A HOUSE FIRE IN STONEHAM ENDED UP UNCOVERING A SURPRISE. A MASSIVE MARIJUANA GROWING OPERATION. AND LIAM MARTIN IS LIVE IN STOP HAM TONIGHT. STONEHAM TONIGHT. A LOT OF PLANTS THERE, LIAM? HUNDREDS OF THEM. THE MAILMAN WAS DELIVERING TO THE HOUSE WHEN HE SPOTTED SMOKE AND CA CALLED AUTHORITIES. ON THE SECOND FLOOR THEY MADE QUITE THE DISCOVERY. BLACK SMOKE WAS POURING OUT OF THE HOUSE. FIRST THE EFFORT TO GET THE BLAZE KNOCKED DOWN. THEY WERE UP ON THE LADDERS BREAKING THE WINDOWS TO LET THE SMOKE OUT. THEN THE DISCOVERY INSIDE. AS THEY WERE BEGINNING TO DO A SEARCH THEY HAPPENED TO NOTICE THE MARIJUANA PLANTS INSIDE THE APARTMENT. ON THE SECOND FLOOR, SOME 500 MARIJUANA PLANTS, PART OF AN ALLEGED GROW OPERATION THAT POLICE SAY WILL COME WITH A SERIOUS PENALTY. TRAFFICKING AND CULTIVATION OF MARIJUANA. DRUGS ARE SOMETHING IN EVERY COMMUNITY AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE SERIOUSLY. AUTHORITIES SAY NO ONE WAS IN THE APARTMENT WHEN THE FIRE STARTED AND NO ONE HAS COME HOME SINCE. THEY DO KNOW WHO RENTS IT AND ARE ASKING THEM TO COME FORWARD. WE ARE LOOKING TO SPEAK WITH THE PERSON WHO OCCUPIED THE SECOND FLOOR. NO CAUSE RULED ON THE FIRE YET. ONE FIREFIGHTER DID SUFFER MINOR INJURIES. NO RESIDENTS WERE HURT. LOCAL POLICE, THE D.E.A. ON SCENE HERE. THEY DID PREPARE THE PLANTS INSIDE AND REMOVED EIGHT TO 10 BOXES. BUT 500 PLANTS INSIDE. SO THEY HAVE MORE BOXES TO GET OUT.